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23rd January 2021, 21:20 | #1 |
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South West Vehicle Auctions - some nice looking cars!!
January’s Auction now been put back to Friday 26th March for obvious reasons - but they do seem to have some really nice vehicles going though!
Lot 9 is a nice looking 75 SE 75 V6 2000 with a warrented 78,491 miles and loads of history. Lot 8 is a nice little Metro GS with a warranted 46,500 Lot 17 has me drooling And at the estimated sale price Lot 18 - what looks to be quite a nice MGF is very tempting if I were to be having my third mid life crisis. Absolutely love Lot 49 - a gorgeous Austin 3litre Auto - seriously cannot remember seeing one of these for decades - let alone one as nice as this with such good history. They say she is “no show queen” but is number 9907 of 9992 cars produced. Never popular in their day - I think she looks great now. And if Wes (Dallas) is about - Lot 63 is what looks to be a very tasty looking Ford Capri Laser. Lots of interesting vehicles up for sale. I’m not connected to the auction house in any way but have spent a few hours there with my sons who have bought some great cars. If and when we can all visit again - they serve a great breakfast as well. |
24th January 2021, 06:50 | #2 |
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It is nice to see these old cars surviving. I know they do not have the ability of todays cars but certainly the Daimler must bring a smile to the drivers face
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24th January 2021, 11:23 | #3 |
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SWA have a habit of showing "come and get me " estimates. That Daimler should fetch north of £8,000 and probably will. At their last auction, they had an Austin A110 Westminster, a Wolseley 6/110 and a Van Den Plas 4 litre R which I was interested in. Estimates ranged from £6,000 for the latter and £9,000 for the others. They fetched between £12 and £14k each.
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Dear me! That 3ltr Austin is beautiful Cracking condition too.
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I learnt to drive in an Austin A99 Westminster with the overdrive on all 3 gears - effectively a 6 speed box. Beautiful ca owned by my father, who replaced it with a Wolseley 6/110 Mk11 automatic. He then moved on to SD1s and a Series 3 Jaguar Sovereign, which I still have. All great cars with personality, unlike today's modern euroboxes.
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My memory of the gear box was overdrive on second and top making it, in my mind, one of the first cars to have a five speed gear box.
You could also pull a handle out to switch off the free wheel unit and make it a standard three speed box for descending hills. The clutch was only used to pull away in first gear so the driven plate had virtually no loading or wear on it. I had to take the gear box off as a poorly designed part inside it had to be replaced. Austin had re-designed the part and beefed it up to avoid any other problems. By then I had 100,000 miles plus on the clock. I had, before the strip down, bought a new clutch plate. The difference in thickness between the old and new was barely one thou.--- I managed to get my money back on it.-- |
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Since 1976 I've bought all the families cars at the south west auctions. ( Bridgwater, mainly. ) My present R 75 came from there and my wife's Citroen C4.
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Somebody's got a bargain. Original Crown wheels and Atlantic Blue ... are very evocative of the era.
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